India's star opener KL Rahul has jumped to fourth place, displacing England's Dawid Malan in the latest ICC Men's T20I rankings for batters. Rahul, with 729 points, is behind Pakistan skipper Babar Azam (1,805 points), Mohammad Rizwan (798 points) and South Africa's Aiden Markram (796 points).
Former India captain Virat Kohli and the new while-ball skipper Rohit Sharma continue to hold on to their 10th and 11th spots respectively among batters in the latest rankings.
Among the bowlers, pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the best Indian at 20th, conceding a run, while star speedster Jasprit Bumrah scaled up two places to 26th. There is no Indian in the all-rounder’s list. India, however, did not feature in T20Is in the recent past.
Meanwhile, Caribbean left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein and fast bowler Jason Holder have achieved career-best rankings after propelling West Indies to a series-deciding 17-run victory in the fifth and final T20I against England in Bridgetown.
In the latest weekly update to the men's rankings, which considers performances in the last three matches of the series, Hosein has moved up 15 places to 18th position after a haul of 4/30 that helped him finish with six wickets in three matches.
Also, former West Indies' captain Holder, who grabbed four wickets in four balls to finish with match figures of 5/27 and a tally of nine wickets in those three matches, has advanced three places to 23rd with a huge gain of 20 rating points.
Sheldon Cottrell of the West Indies (up 10 places to 31st) is another Caribbean bowler to move up in Wednesday's update while England spinner Moeen Ali (up three places to 32nd) and Liam Livingston (up 33 places to 68th) have also advanced.
In the ranking for batters, Nicholas Pooran is up eight places to 18th after scoring 113 runs in the three matches including a knock of 70, while Brandon King (up 25 places to 58th) and West Indies captain Kieron Pollard (up 15 places to 60th) have also advanced.
England all-rounder and recently their stand-in captain against the West Indies in their five-match T20I series, Moeen Ali has seen a significant up movement in the latest update of the ICC T20I all-rounders’ rankings.
The left-handed batter and right-arm off-spinner led from the front after regular captain Eoin Morgan missed the last two T20 Internationals against West Indies due to a quad injury. Moeen shined despite the tourists losing the five-match series 3-2 in Barbados.
Moeen made 108 runs at a strike rate of 146 throughout the middle to late-over stretches in England’s batting innings, also taking five wickets across 13 overs, at an economy of 7.15. He also smacked some huge sixes in the encounters, including seven staggering sixes in a blitz of 63 in the fourth match of the series.
This helped Moeen Ali leapfrog Glenn Maxwell and Wanindu Hasaranga on the ICC Men’s T20I All-Rounder rankings, sitting in third behind Mohammad Nabi (265) and top-ranked Shakib Al Hasan (231).
Apart from Moeen Ali’s upswing, West Indies captain Kieron Pollard jumped 14 places into the top 20, after being dismissed just once in the series and striking at 140 with the bat. He also scalped four wickets in the series, bowling regularly.
Jason Holder (up 15 spots to 34th) and Romario Shepherd (up 12 spots to 70th) were other notable gainers.
